Opinion: It's a radical approach, but there are precedents for the kind of action being discussed, writes Daniel Odin Shaw.
Times Past
"Backyard boys build a computer" reported The Canberra Times on its front page on this day 53 years ago. Two 17-year-old students from Telopea Park High School, Richard Swan and Tony Rossiter, partly built a digital computer which handled figures and alphabetical data with the accuracy of a professional computer. READ MORE